Main area: Healthy Bowel Colorectal
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week, Compressed hours on request)
Job ref: 287-RSUR-12-25
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree, Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing date: 11/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a permanent position for a Specialist Clinician to support the Colorectal Healthy Bowel Service managing patients across Merseyside with functional bowel disorders including constipation, obstructive defecation, and faecal incontinence.
Working with the multidisciplinary team across Liverpool University Hospitals, you will play a key role in contributing to this high-quality patient-centered service, including involvement and participation at MDT meetings and outpatient clinics.
On a day-to-day basis, you will have your own outpatient clinic stream, providing specialist assessment of Healthy Bowel Clinic patients, ordering and interpreting appropriate investigations, and using sound clinical reasoning skills to implement agreed treatment plans within local and national guidelines. You will be supported by the Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Colorectal Consultants, and Managers in further developing your skills to fulfill this role.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment of patients presenting with functional bowel conditions, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communications via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
2. To liaise with a team of Clinicians and assist in the implementation of services within the clinical governance framework.
3. To provide optimal patient care ensuring high standards of clinical practice.
4. To prepare and deliver audit projects and presentations as required to raise the profile of the service.
5. Lead an area of specialty within the Healthy Bowel Clinic.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* B.Sc in Physiotherapy / Nursing degree
* Current registration with HCPC / NMC
* Post Graduate courses in Management at various levels/equivalent
* Post-Graduate courses in bowel management / pelvic floor disorders and treatment
Experience
* Demonstrable experience working in bowel management/pelvic floor disorders
Knowledge
* Audit
* Research
Skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Forward thinking
* Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
* Ability to manage and work within a team
* Able to handle difficult, sensitive, and emotional situations
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisation's safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
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